Assessment of a satellite-based atmospheric budget analysis method using CINDY2011/DYNAMO/AMIE and TOGA COARE sounding array data

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 93A, Issue , 2016, Pages 21-40

  Masunaga, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convection; Satellite remote sensing; Tropical dynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOGA-COARE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84955165961     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2015-032     Document Type: Article

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